King Donald the First: Fuck That
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Common Dreams
King Donald the First: Fuck That | Common Dreams
The run-up to No Kings Day has seen a crazed wave of hysteria from a right wing shrieking about Hamas, Marxists, Huns, Orcs, Barbarians at the Gate with the sinister portent, "You'll see the hate for America all over this thing." What the. We think we'll…
Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
ProPublica
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
Europe and the US Are Drifting Apart and It Isn’t Just Because of Trump
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-von-der-leyen-trade-tariffs-china-tech/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-von-der-leyen-trade-tariffs-china-tech/
Jacobin
Europe and the US Are Drifting Apart and It Isn’t Just Because of Trump
Donald Trump is often blamed for the US’s hostility toward the EU, but the roots of the rift run deeper. Europe’s manufacturing-heavy economy and tough regulation of US tech have put it on a collision course with Washington.
The Colonial Logic of Puerto Rico’s FOMB
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/puerto-rico-fomb-trump-colonialism/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/puerto-rico-fomb-trump-colonialism/
Jacobin
The Colonial Logic of Puerto Rico’s FOMB
The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.
Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Gear Up for a Potential Strike
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/chattanooga-volkswagen-uaw-strike-pledge-fain/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/chattanooga-volkswagen-uaw-strike-pledge-fain/
Jacobin
Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Gear Up for a Potential Strike
Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant, which joined the United Auto Workers last year, is the first in the South to have unionized through an election since 1940. As first contract negotiations stall, the UAW is gathering pledge cards for a possible strike.
Knesset MP Ofer Cassif on the Need for Palestinian Liberation
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/cassif-knesset-israel-palestine-liberation/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/cassif-knesset-israel-palestine-liberation/
Jacobin
Knesset MP Ofer Cassif on the Need for Palestinian Liberation
Ofer Cassif, among the few Israeli MPs to openly reject Zionism, tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region.
The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/oren-cass-american-compass-labor-conservatism-immigration/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/oren-cass-american-compass-labor-conservatism-immigration/
Jacobin
The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement
The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics.
The Activist Humanist w/ Caroline Levine
https://mronline.org/2025/10/18/the-activist-humanist-w-caroline-levine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-activist-humanist-w-caroline-levine
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MR Online
The Activist Humanist w/ Caroline Levine | MR Online
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press, 2023). Building…
Fascism and Liberal Complicity
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/fascism-and-liberal-complicity/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/fascism-and-liberal-complicity/
CounterPunch.org
Fascism and Liberal Complicity
John Ganz, a fairly center-of-left voice found in the pages of The Nation, had correctly condemned Trump as a “tyrant”, citing such evidence as Trump’s decision to send in federal troops into major cities, and how Trump simply ignores basic tenets of the…
Anti-Imperialist Motherfucker
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/anti-imperialist-motherfucker/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/anti-imperialist-motherfucker/
CounterPunch.org
Anti-Imperialist Motherfucker
With an imperialist way raging in Southeast Asia and an anti-imperialist movement revving up in the States, the early 1970s was a perfect time to publish
How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/enshittification-doctorow-musk-twitter-internet/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/enshittification-doctorow-musk-twitter-internet/
Jacobin
How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter
Twitter used to represent the best of the internet. Under Elon Musk, it has become the home of AI-generated pornography and pay-to-play engagement farming, Cory Doctorow writes.
Rob Ashton, Longshoreman Vs Canada’s Political Class
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/canada-ndp-leadership-election-ashton/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/canada-ndp-leadership-election-ashton/
Jacobin
Rob Ashton, Longshoreman Vs Canada’s Political Class
Canadian ILWU president Rob Ashton is running for New Democratic Party leadership, arguing that the party has lost touch with its base. His campaign aims to put workers back in charge.
The Women Who Fought Japan’s Empire
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/literature-japanese-imperialism-women-guerrilla-war/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/literature-japanese-imperialism-women-guerrilla-war/
Jacobin
The Women Who Fought Japan’s Empire
Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels.
What Is Tim Dillon Doing?
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/tim-dillon-youtube-comedy-right-wing-irony/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/tim-dillon-youtube-comedy-right-wing-irony/
Jacobin
What Is Tim Dillon Doing?
The Tim Dillon Show is disorienting and disturbing. It also has a massive audience, to whom it reflects back the disorientation and disturbance of contemporary society in pseudo-personalized form.
The Red Scare Is American Past and Present
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mccarthyism-trump-red-scare-robeson-cpusa-khalil/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mccarthyism-trump-red-scare-robeson-cpusa-khalil/
Jacobin
The Red Scare Is American Past and Present
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.
“No Kings” Redux: Necessary But Insufficient (and Somewhat Misdirected)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/no-kings-redux-necessary-but-insufficient-and-somewhat-misdirected/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/19/no-kings-redux-necessary-but-insufficient-and-somewhat-misdirected/
CounterPunch.org
“No Kings” Redux: Necessary But Insufficient (and Somewhat Misdirected)
Back in June, I attended the first "No Kings" rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While crowd
The Frog Abides: We The People Are Pissed
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Common Dreams
The Frog Abides: We The People Are Pissed | Common Dreams
Just like smarmy teeny MAGA Mike warned, up to eight million Marxists, terrorists, Hamas fighters and other patriots - along with hordes of radical inflatable frogs, chickens, unicorns, bananas - stormed America's streets to march, sing, dance, feel "joyful…
A Plan for Halting the Ukraine War
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/a-plan-for-halting-the-ukraine-war/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/a-plan-for-halting-the-ukraine-war/
CounterPunch.org
A Plan for Halting the Ukraine War
Separating the Practical from the Ideal Intractable conflicts are wars without end, and Russia’s war with Ukraine seems to fit the bill. Now three and a
In the Wake of NoKings 2.0, Trump/MAGA’s Four Fascist Roots are Failing
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/in-the-wake-of-nokings-2-0-trump-magas-four-fascist-roots-are-failing/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/in-the-wake-of-nokings-2-0-trump-magas-four-fascist-roots-are-failing/
CounterPunch.org
In the Wake of NoKings 2.0, Trump/MAGA’s Four Fascist Roots are Failing
The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US
Ten Ways You Are Being Burned by Billionaires
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/ten-ways-you-are-being-burned-by-billionaires/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/ten-ways-you-are-being-burned-by-billionaires/
CounterPunch.org
Ten Ways You Are Being Burned by Billionaires
As a co-editor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail (and a few complaints). Greg B. recently wrote in, “None of my problems exist as a result of
